Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Dissenting opinion · Legal writingThe greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.Louis BrandeisOlmstead v. United States · 1928★ 6.9
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.John A. SheddSalt from My Attic · 1928★ 6.0
Essay · Philosophical literatureThe opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder's lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.Bertrand RussellOn the Value of Scepticism · 1928★ 5.2
Song · Great American songbookBirds do it, bees do it, Even educated fleas do it. Let's do it, let's fall in love.Cole PorterLet's Do It · 1928★ 5.1
Nature writing · Autobiography and memoirThe world today is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling from the earth, for air, for the dear earth itself underfoot.Henry Beston1928★ 5.0
Capitalism undoubtedly has certain boils and blotches upon it, but has it as many as government? Has it as many as marriage? Has it as many as religion? I doubt it. It is the only basic institution of modern man that shows any genuine health and vigor.H.L. Mencken1928★ 4.3
PoemCourage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace, The soul that knows it not, knows no release From little things.Amelia Earhart1928★ 3.7
Essay · Philosophical literatureEvery man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.Bertrand Russell1928★ 3.6
Essay · Philosophical literatureIt is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.Bertrand Russell1928★ 3.6
Short storyThe most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.H.P. Lovecraft1928★ 3.6
PoemEverything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams.W.B. Yeats1928★ 3.6
Religious literatureThose whom God hath joined together let no man put asunder.The Book of Common Prayer1928★ 3.6
Essay · Philosophical literatureNext to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.Bertrand Russell1928★ 3.5
Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Dissenting opinion · Legal writingThey conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone—the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.Louis BrandeisOlmstead v. United States · 1928★ 3.5
EssayI am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes... I do not weep at the world-I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.Zora Neale Hurston1928★ 3.5
EssayThe safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.Alfred North Whitehead1928★ 3.5
Religious literatureEarth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection unto eternal life.The Book of Common Prayer1928★ 3.5
Religious literatureIf any man can show just cause, why they may not lawfully be joined together, let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace.The Book of Common Prayer1928★ 3.5
Scientific literatureIf an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they might write all the books in the British Museum.Arthur Eddington1928★ 3.5
PoemI am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind: Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.Edna St. Vincent Millay1928★ 3.5
Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writingThe government ought not to use evidence obtained and only obtainable, by a criminal act...for my part I think it a less evil that some criminals could escape than that, the Government should play an ignoble part.Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.Olmstead v. United States · 1928★ 3.5
Speech · Political speechWe were challenged with a peace-time choice between the American System of rugged individualism and a European philosophy of diametrically opposed doctrines-doctrines of paternalism and static socialism.Herbert Hoover1928★ 3.5
Religious literatureI believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and earth; and in Jesus Christ, His only Son Our Lord, Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended into Hell; the third day He rose again from the dead; He ascended into Heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of God, the Father almighty; from thence He shall come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost, the holy Catholic Church, the Communion of Saints, the Forgiveness of sins: The Resurrection of the body and life everlasting.The Book of Common Prayer1928★ 3.5
Religious literatureTo have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part.The Book of Common Prayer1928★ 3.5
NewspaperJust as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.Heywood Broun1928★ 3.4
EssayThe first fall of snow is not only an event, but it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up to find yourself in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment, then where is it to be found?J.B. Priestley1928★ 3.4
Scientific literatureI shall use the phrase "time's arrow" to express this one way property of time which has no analogue in space.Arthur Eddington1928★ 2.6
Essay · Philosophical literatureRationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.Alfred North Whitehead1928★ 2.0
EssayThe infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.Bertrand Russell1928★ 1.9
NovelIn every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is the very opposite of what it is above.Virginia Woolf1928★ 1.9
Children's book · Children's literatureWhen you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.A.A. MilneThe House at Pooh Corner · 1928★ 1.9
LetterOur country has deliberately undertaken a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.Herbert Hoover1928★ 1.9
Psychological literatureAs the traveller who has been once from home is wiser than he who has never left his own door step, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinise more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.Margaret Mead1928★ 1.9
What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled over night, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly to be sacrificed.Benjamin Cardozo1928★ 1.9
Nature writing · Autobiography and memoirThe three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.Henry Beston1928★ 1.8
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